Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

Hans Reiser
2006-07-28T09:26:36Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:

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> Actually, there is reiser4 brokenness lurking in Hans' statement, too:

Where! Someone tell me!;-)

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> A filesystem WITH plugins must still handle the standard Linux
> compatibility stuff that other filesystems handle.

Hmm, you mean we should first implement regular unix file plugins before
implementing enhanced functionality ones? Are you aware that reiser4
plugins are per file, and thus if a user selects a plugin that is not
the default, and which has user visible semantic differences, it means
they said they want non-standard behavior?

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> Plugins --do not-- mean that you can just change the filesystem format
> willy-nilly, with zero impact.

Yes they do.....

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